[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, October 17, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] Jeopardy!’s third Champions Wildcard semifinals are underway with returning players: Lucy Ricketts, a book designer & freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia; Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher & doctoral student from San Jose, California; and Joe Feldmann, a technology professional from Bethesda, Maryland. However, despite stiff competition and a bit of bad luck, tonight’s winner was able to turn the game around for a comeback victory. Before we even hit the first break, Lucy found the first Daily Double of the game. Unfortunately, she could not answer it correctly, dropping her by $2,400. Thankfully, Lucy was able to recover to tie with Daniel for first place at $3,200 each and Joe with $2,800. Joe found the Daily Double on the first clue of Double Jeopardy but could not answer correctly, dropping him down $2,800. As the game progressed, Lucy was able to find the final Daily Double of ...
- 10/17/2023
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Some Jeopardy! category names can get to be quite long, so it’s not uncommon for the contestants to sometimes shorten them as a round goes on. However, that hasn’t been the case lately. On October 3, a Reddit user noted that contestants were saying the category names in their entirety. Contestant Daniel Nguyen (who played in the October 6 game) wrote, “Good catch. We were asked to say categories in their entirety. I think it’s to help remind the audience the category of each clue.” He then returned to edit his response with the clarification that this was true for the current season, while in February 2022, they were told to shorten the category names. Added David Maybury, who played in the games on September 12, 14, and 15, “We were told this was a new rule. I was gently chided a couple times when I shortened categories.” However, with the October 9 episode,...
- 10/9/2023
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